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Guy Taylor

Guy Taylor

Guy Taylor is the National Security Editor at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence coverage and driving the daily Threat Status newsletter. He has reported from dozens of countries and been a guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, C-SPAN and The McLaughlin Group.

A series Mr. Taylor led on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election was recognized with a Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and a Society for Professional Journalists award. In 2012, he won a Virginia Press Association award reporting from Mexico.

Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Mr. Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism. He wrote for a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He also served as an editor at World Politics Review, wrote for America's Quarterly and produced videos and features for Agence France-Presse.

Mr. Taylor holds an M.S. in Global Security Studies from Angelo State University and a B.A. from Clark University. He was part of a team who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their reporting on the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.

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Articles by Guy Taylor

Sav Bennly sits in front of a memorial at Bourbon and Canal Street in the French Quarter, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025 in New Orleans. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Feds hunting for New Orleans terrorist’s connection to Islamic State

Federal law enforcement and U.S. intelligence officials are combing through material found on three cellphones and two laptop computers linked to the Army veteran turned terrorist who carried out the New Orleans massacre, trying to determine whether he had tangible connections to the Islamic State or was radicalized by online propaganda from the international terrorist group, also known as ISIS. Published January 2, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un exchange documents during a signing ceremony of the new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. Kim and Putin signed a major defense deal that observers worry could embolden Kim to direct more provocations at South Korea. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Warming Moscow-Pyongyang alliance escalates danger, South Korean lawmakers say

A high-level delegation of left-leaning South Korean lawmakers has called during a visit to Washington for their country's conservative president to resist Western pressure to directly arm Ukraine against Russia, even as North Korea is widely accused of aiding the Kremlin in the fight. Published June 27, 2024

In this image taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on May 28, 2022, a new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched by the frigate named "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Russian navy from the Barents Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, sent a frigate off to the Atlantic Ocean armed with hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Pentagon official admits U.S. hypersonic defenses ‘inadequate’

A Senate Armed Services hearing turned heated this week when Sen. Angus King, chairman of the Strategic Forces subcommittee, laid into John Hill, deputy assistant defense secretary for space and missile defense, about why the Biden administration's 2025 missile defense budget request falls far short on funding to maintain readiness against the growing threat of hypersonic missiles from adversaries -- namely Russia. Published May 9, 2024

Robert Malley, U.S. special envoy for Iran, is shown on June 20, 2021, in Vienna, Austria. The Biden administration’s special envoy for Iran has stepped aside from his duties pending a review of his security clearance by U.S. authorities. Malley has led administration efforts to revive the faltering Iran nuclear deal and resolve issues related to detained Americans in Iran, but has not been active in his job for weeks. (AP Photo/Florian Schroetter) ** FILE **

New details emerge on Biden’s Iran envoy-in-limbo

The mystery surrounding sidelined Biden administration Iran envoy Robert Malley is deepening, amid revelations by two top GOP lawmakers that Mr. Malley may have downloaded "classified documents" onto his cellphone, which was then apparently hacked by Iranian cyber operatives. Published May 8, 2024

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a press conference at the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello) ** FILE **

Blinken meets with Qatar’s prime minister to discuss Hamas-Israel war

With high-stakes talks over a potential cease-fire in Gaza at an impasse, Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a summit in Washington on Tuesday with Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, a key player in the regional tensions spiraling around the Israel-Hamas war. Published March 6, 2024

In this photo released by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), from left, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, former U.S. National security adviser Stephen Hadley, Taiwanese Vice-President and President-elect Lai Ching-te, who goes by William, Taiwanese Vice-President elect Bi-khim Hsiao, Director of the American Institute pose for a photo in Taiwan Sandra Oudkirk and Chair of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Laura Rosenberger pose for photos at the DPP headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Retired U.S. officials have met with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and praised the island's democratic process that produced a new president-elect and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force. (Democratic Progressive Party via AP)

Stung China warns as U.S. delegation meets Taiwanese President-elect Lai

Chinese officials warned the U.S. on Monday to use "extreme prudence" in relations with Taiwan and suggested a delegation of former U.S. officials sent by the Biden administration to congratulate Taiwanese President-elect Lai Ching-te was being closely watched by Beijing. Published January 15, 2024